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...Massachusetts. With 400 men, he camped in the Panama Canal Zone, in 1903-04, while Panama extracted her freedom from Colombia. In the Cuban revolution of 1912, he commanded the U. S. troops who pacified the district of Santiago. In 1914, he took part in the capture of Vera Cruz...
...notable addition to the cinema gallery for the week. Addicts will recall the first Potash and Perlmutter film with considerable satisfaction. The second (derived from the play Business before Pleasure) is quite as entertaining. The four-star label on the billboards displays the names of Alexander Carr, George Sidney, Vera Gordon and Betty Blythe. When Abe takes to kicking the lion under the impression that it is a dog in disguise, there is really no point in anyone's retaining his gravity. The subtitles are even more diverting...
...Latin-American policy. The U. S. rules all but six Latin-American Republics "by bullets and bankers," the U. S. "dragooned" Mexico for U. S. oil interests, said Mr. Villard. "The blood of the 3,000 Haytians slain by our American marines, and of the 400 dead in Vera Cruz, mostly women and children, dishonors our good name, especially when involved with so sordid a business as debt collection...
Last week, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared at the village of Tres Bocas in the province of Vera Cruz. Daily her image appeared, at 8 a. m. and at noon, on the stump of a large tree in a cornfield. It would speak only to a native girl, aged nine, asking that a Church be built on the site of the tree stump...
Mexico. From Vera Cruz to Jalapa, more than 100 miles, were "hordes" of grasshoppers, gaily munching crops, stopping trains and stridulating with much gusto. It was said that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was virtually covered with the insects. Although the Department of Agriculture was busy fighting the plague by issuing instructions to farmers, who waged an energetic war upon the hoppers, the latter were reported to be getting the better of the encounters...